Doppelstaatsangehörigen wird ab dem 25. Februar die Einreise nach Großbritannien verweigert, es sei denn, sie besitzen einen britischen Pass | Homeoffice | Der Wächter
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/13/dual-nationals-denied-entry-to-uk-british-passport-border-control
Von rejs7
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„to be denied“ is not same as „could“. Govt’s own specific description makes this a sensationalist headline – already the subtitle and the first para in the article tell the actual reality that is much less absolute than the clickbait headline.
Govt page:
„As a British citizen, you do not need an ETA. However, to travel to the United Kingdom you must have a valid British passport. As a dual national, you must travel to the UK either with a valid British passport (or an Irish passport), or with another valid passport (for example, a Czech one) together with a Certificate of Entitlement to the Right of Abode in the United Kingdom.“
£589 quid for an unnecessary certificate, is a petty money grubbing piss-take.
Plus the c*nt’s couldn’t even have the decency to make it an even number…
This is pretty much a standard rule when entering a country.
If you have their passport, you have to enter the country on it.
USA, China, Brazil…
And many more.
Interestingly, this is already a rule for the UK, /so this article is useless/
Edit. Apparently it is to make sure you, as a British citizen will only enter on passport or ETA ( electronic document).
Until Feb 26th you can enter on one of specific foreign passports, no matter you are a British citizen.
https://www.gov.uk/dual-citizenship
Dual BRITISH nationals. As a dual national (US and Ireland) this is absolutely standard stuff for border policy and I’m surprised the UK doesn’t have a policy like this. Both Ireland and the US do this (and, for the US’s part, it’s not just crazy Trump stuff, it’s been the case my entire life and my mother’s entire life too.)
Does this just apply to dual nationals or does it apply to people with right to remain?
Also, what the fuck.
What a stupid thing to do.
So how does this work if I have a Canadian and Irish passport. Because the Irish passport is not actually a British passport even though it gives almost the same rights, do I need to still care?
I assume that some of the affected people will just enter the UK with their foreign passport and not tell immigration that they’re also British.
You’ll never be denied entry at the border if you are a UK citizen. The airline/ferry might stop you from boarding if they catch you tho.
delayed, NOT „denied“. thats untrue. You cn still enter but you’ll be massively delayed until they can verify who you are.
We moved to Australia and are now dual citizens. Thankfully my British passport is still valid but my wife and eldest child’s isn’t. As an added bonus my two youngest kids, born in Australia, automatically become dual citizens which is great for if they want to live and work in the UK in the future, but means even more passports if we’re looking at going over later this year.
At least we’ve got time – we know another couple who were going to travel over later this month and, while they began the passport process a few weeks ago, only one passport has started to be processed so far. For us, even though we sent all four over together, only two have started to be processed.
I don’t know why people keep repeating this is standard everywhere? I have dual nationality of 2 different EU countries but I only have 1 passport (why would I pay to have 2 passports that do the same thing?) and whenever I travel to the country of which I don’t have a passport for, there has never been any issues and I go there multiple times a year
My son has his British passport already but it was a pain in the arse to get.
Mainly the countersignee part where you need someone who has known you for many years but is also a Recognised Profession like a nurse or priest or whatever.
Nowadays that people move around a lot and don’t go to church etc. it can be a surprisingly hard condition to fulfill.
So, they have less rights than a regular visitor? This makes no sense.
Probably misleading like neodiodorus said
This would mean british citizens are not allowed into Britain. Which sounds impossible.
The real issue is that the Home Office only very quietly gave notice of this at the end of November and it only became more apparent in the press in Jan/Feb – for a rule change that is implemented in just 12 days.
Fine to change the rules. Absolutely not fine to give such a ridiculously short timefrane for the million plus British dual nationals to see this and then score a new passport.
We gave all of our data to Palantir and they can’t even match a foreign passport to naturalized citizens. What a fucking waste.
If they don’t have a British passport… they are not dual nationals….
Don’t they already do this? We got spoken to quite rudely from the guy at the border last summer, because we didnt take the kids UK passports with us.
If you have Spanish Passport and you are a Brit, this shouldn’t affect you because you don’t have double nationality.